09:48 – I’m doing science kit stuff today, building boxes and subassemblies for later assembly into full kits. I’m also down to my last case of 100 goggles, so I need to reorder several more cases. This afternoon, I’ll get started on the taxes, which means I’ll be in a bad mood until I get them finished and sent off. I’m sure our taxes will go up this year, as usual. At least we can afford to pay them. A lot of people can’t.
Now that the weather is getting better, I want to have the taxes out of the way so that we can take some weekend day trips up to our northwest to check out potential areas for relocation. We probably won’t be making the move for a year or two, but I want a better idea of what’s out there. So we’ll be making trips up to the Dobson and Sparta and West Jefferson areas.
That reminds me, I need to research which sorority house I want to seek shelter in when the SHTF. 😉
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I just went and saw a retina specialist, Dr. Lee Tran, at
http://www.hretina.com ( http://hretina.com/doctors_tran.html )
The retina specialist surgeon verified that I have a 1.5 cm floater almost dead center between my lens and retina. Normally he does not do floater removal surgery due to the risks but he is willing to do the surgery to remove the floater if I want. However, there is a 0.1% chance of complications such as retinal tear, lens tear, lens separation, infection, etc. Any of these will cause some percentage loss of the eye functionality. He said that I would hate him the rest of my life and he was very serious about that.
His major concern in addition to the possible complications is that your vitreous fluid separates from the retina from age 50 to 60 and that this can cause more floaters. Plus, it might cause the existing floater to move. I am 54 years old and my separation is right at 50%. He strongly advised that I wait to see what happens since I have been waiting three or four years already.
There are also more complications with the cataracts. The vitrectomy procedure will cause the cataract to start growing and require lens replacement in 6 to 12 months. Also, if they scratch the lens sack during the procedure then the cataract procedure will be complicated. The cataract procedure will also be complicated by the viscosity difference in the fluid that they replace the vitreous fluid with. Basically the lens bag will move up to 10 mm in the new fluid and changing the focal length.
I am going to think about this for quite a while.
Yikes.
I’m having some very minor surgery next month on my lower eyelid, nothing to worry about. But Mrs. OFD has some potentially serious problems and has to see a specialist next month also.
Think long and hard, Mr. Lynn; hope it works out for ya.
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I just went and saw a retina specialist, Dr. Lee Tran
Serious business indeed, Mr. Lynn. I hope all works out to your favor as you wait to see what develops. My Mom had a similar floater removed from one eye about 4 years ago. Her eyes are still better than mine. Clear long vision, and pretty good near vision. Just needs a magnifier for her coin collecting.
That’s why I went to the best LASIK doc I could find and paid for the best plan. No less than three docs thoroughly examined all parts of my eyes. And none of them were even the LASIK doc. I still get a chuckle at the Vegas billboard hawking “$399 LASIK per eye”. No thanks.
The vitrectomy procedure will cause the cataract to start growing and require lens replacement in 6 to 12 months.
Indeed it does. That is what I was told and what I experienced. When I had the vitrectomy done they break up the vitreous fluid and suck it out replacing it with saline. They also lasered my retina when I had the vitrectomy accomplished. Except for some hemorrhaging in one eye that eventually cleared up I had no problems.
I waited about 18 months after the vitrectomy to have the cataract surgery and by that time all the saline has been replaced by new vitreous fluid.
For people that are nearsighted the vitreous fluid will gel and pull on the retina as people age. Hence the lasering. The vitrectomy helps.
The stuff they tell you sounds scary and it can be if things don’t go correctly. However the error rate is quite small and the improvement in vision is absolutely remarkable.
Yikes again.
OFD will stick with his friggin’ spectacles that he’s grown to know and love for lo, these fifty-four years now. Bifocals since 2001. If they was good enuff for my dear old g-g-g-grandpa/uncle/whatever Dr. Franklin, they’s good enuff for me.
I wanted to stop reading when I got to “vasectomy”, but the sheer horror of the description kept me reading. Yikes.
Yes, it’s been fairly horrifying here lately; dissected eyeballs and plastic storage bag sealing.